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badgerers

badgerers is the plural of badgerer.

Meaning of badgerer

Noun

badgerer (plural badgerers)

  1. One who badgers.
    • All other persons rejoice at his being exposed: the Ministerial people, because they get rid of a sturdy badgerer ; and the Radicals, because they saw in him a deceptious friend.1826, William Cobbett, Cobbett's Weekly Register, page 587
  2. A dog used in baiting badgers.
    • And when the second-best ambition of his life arrived by coach — that notable dog, "Pablo" — if Christopher could have sniffed lightest scent of Beckley, or Shotover, in the black dog- winkles of his nostrils, the odds are ten to one that Oxford never would have sighed (as all through the October...1883, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Cripps, the Carrier: A Woodland Tale, publ. S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, pg. 417

Questions about badgerers

What is badgerers the plural of?
Badgerers is the plural of badgerer.

Words near badgerers in the dictionary

  1. Badger Stater
  2. badger-legged
  3. badgerbrush
  4. badgered
  5. badgerer
  6. badgerers
  7. badgerhood
  8. badgering
  9. badgeringly
  10. badgerings
  11. badgerlike

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